Integrated Photonic True-Time Delay Beamformer for a Ka-band Phased Array Antenna Receiver

C. Duarte, Vanessa; G. Prata, João; Ribeiro, Carlos; N. Nogueira, Rogério; Winzer, Georg; Zimmermann, Lars; Walker, Rob; Clements, Stephen; Filipowicz, Marta; Napierała, Marek; Nasiłowski, Tomasz; A. Crabb, J.; Stampoulidis, L.; Anzalchi, J.; V. Drummond, Miguel

doi:10.1364/ofc.2018.m2g.5

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Integrated Photonic True-Time Delay Beamformer for a Ka-band Phased Array Antenna Receiver

Published in Optical Fiber Communication Conference • Jan 1, 2018

Authors:

Vanessa C. Duarte

João G. Prata

Carlos Ribeiro

Abstract

We demonstrate a silicon photonic 4×1 TTD beamformer operated in real-time. Beamforming of a 1 Gb/s QPSK signal carried at 28 GHz was validated by a fourfold improvement in output amplitude and EVM.

Subject

True time delay

Beamforming

Photonics

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